Group meetings

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Schedules

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September 15

• Desks: 3 desks available in Djinovic office
• Win 10 computers
  • M2 computer can be upgraded to Win11, but all the drives are installed not as UEFI devices, but legacy devices (reason for that is unknown). MPL IT support is already on it
  • pc-ries25 is being upgraded to Win11, for use with prospective M6
  • MINFLUX computer needs to be taken care of by Abberior, they are already notified.

September 9

• Application Wiktoria
• Desks
• Remember to turn microscope laser in use signs on and off 

September 1

• Welcome back Zhaojun
• Schedule practical microscope, other primers

August 11

• Application Bachelor Enes Yavuz
• Lab farewell gifts organization

August 4

• U-2 OS should be kept in McCoy's according to ATCC
• Bachelor request Jonathan Wagner
• Wine hike

July 28

• Storage space and data management on M2 computer
• MINFLUX experiments while Francesco is away
• Aithyra symposium
• Wine hike

July 21

• suggestions for speakers Modern Concepts Seminar Series
• Wine Hike
• Bachelor applicant Fabian Göschler
• Fume Hood for cell fixation → Robert Konrat
• upgrade of cooling unit in -20°C room. What is stored there from us?

July 14

• quiet and overflow offices in Arendt's area
• Wine hike
• Visit Oskar Tamm
• Visit Moritz
• Shantanu's good bye 
• Visit Glantschnig on Wednesday
• Monitors from Arndt

June 16

• conferences
• Perutz anniversary 24.6.

June 11

• Conferences:
  • SMLMS, 27.-29.8., Bonn (deadline 27.6.)
  • Seeing is believing, 8.-11.10., Heidelberg (deadline 2.7.)
• Web page(s)

June 2

• Rescheduled group meetings
• Group Dinner - Pallavi (July)
• Bachelor projects
• Applications
  • Hannah Lankowski
  • Jonas Schedel
  • Yusuf Iris
• Recap retreat
  • pictures
  • what was good/to improve next time?
  • timeline for planning the next retreat
  • laserpointer

May 19

• Safety inspection
• Lab retreat
• İleyna Yılmaz Erasmus+ student
• PhD recruitment June 3-8
• Media Kitchen
• Job advertisements for Bachelor and Master Students

May 5

• Speakers for VBC speaker series
• Summer students: when do they arrive? Some are coming to the retreat...
• Application Hannah Lankowsky
• Retreat: last preparations
• Seminar Florian Schueder
• Group meeting on the 19.5.
• Interview Weiqing on the 6.5.

April 7

• Jonas' travels
• Retreat

March 24

• Visit Fabian, who receives him?
• Lab retreat updates and room selection
• Wet lab upkeep regarding inspection

March 17

• Visit Francesca Bottanelli
  • lunch
  • 1:1s with her
• Lab retreat
• Jonas' chair
• Participation in Freezer challenge (Climate group)

March 10

• Applications
  • Szymon Szostak (July - Sept)
  • Jasmin Berchtold (Master, 1 year from now)
  • Visit Martin postdoc  (today)
• Positions to fill this and next year: participate in Physics PhD selection? 
• new cell culture
• molecular biophysics course 
• Lab Retreat Planning

February 20

• renaming of mailing list: ries.group@lists.maxperutzlabs.ac.at

February 17

• Matlab: still some missing?
• Thursday social - scientific concepts (layman/ breakdown)

February 10

• Philipp's responsibilities as the Lab Manager
• visit Chris, dinner/drinks?
• Hookipa equipment sale
• Application Ankit
• M5 feature priority

January 28

• Join Quantitative Cell Biology Club?
• Lunch with Falk Lab at IMP Cafeteria on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:30 pm
• Application Ankit (Master)
• Matlab (last time)
• Last details for the party
• VBC2 storage furniture
• Visit Chris 

January 20

• Safety inspection on Wednesday
• M5 underbooking
• Purchasing UV transilluminator  (~1000-1300EUR)
• Matlab
• registration of notebooks in ZID network
• aliquoting dyes and using aliquots
• group party

January 13

• PC RIES26 (office) - FIJI doesn't work, too slow, some JAVA issue?
  update: PD FIJI from C drive pinned to task bar, able to run
• Who is waiting for Matlab?
• group party
• onboarding Philipp
• safety inspection

January 8

• FOM deadline
• Group party date
• Retreat
• Vacations (ask Jonas, put into SAP, put into calendar)
• new zoom room

December 16

• FOM 2025 deadline approaching
• TA candidates
• Retreat decide
• Application Adrienne R
• Application  Sidak Grewal

December 9

• TA candidates on Tuesday
• ISTA visit on Thursday?
• Teaching BioOptics course
• Collaboration with Leonard: DNA-PAINT
• Retreat data
• New Year's party date 

December 2

• TA applicants: Jakub vs Marilica vs extend search
• PhD interviews
• Loss of EMBL credentials

November 25

• TA applicants
• ELN and Inventory Management
  • purpose of new database
  • naming storage units
    • names?
    • numbers?
    • labels from outside?
    • pictures of contents?
  • management: everyone or single person?
  • transfer to new system: timeline?
• Christmas parties floor, group

November 18

• VBC Summer school participation: https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
• Anuj Soni application
• Interview Jakub
• PhD interview week
• Teaching Mol biophysics

October 21

• Jonas traveling
• institute Christmas party (we need to organize this)
• group Christmas party date and format
• Group retreat next year
• Computer list
• Interview Tereza 
• Abbelight demo, tomorrow at 15

October 7

• institute Christmas party (we need to organize this)
• group Christmas party date and format
• Group retreat next year
• wine hike
• presentation Jonas on Thursday
• Update computer table with Macs (or did I only see wrong table?)

September 30

• ELN problems
• image analysis collaboration
• Berlin visit
• Lab lunch with Juffmann and/or Falk labs

September 23

• Lab outings
• Application Bryan Tul-ao
• Interview Yukun
• ELN problems
• Basics of SMLM, MINFLUX, literature review, etc. primers?

September 9

• Homepage edits
• Interest in/ideas for lab outings (Boating, wine hiking, etc.)
• freezer
• sample holders

September 4

• applicant Pau
• visit Kirill
• new computers. List of PCs

August 19

• Slack: Pallavi and Alejandro
• Application Masters student Pau García

August 12

• move HD to Vienna

August 5

• Todo
• organize lab cleaning day → DONE
• organize LabFolder day for standardization
• wet lab: clean up after yourself!
• export whole EMBL wiki as PDF
• lab tasks

• talk Enderlein on Friday
• Ries lab tour for Juffmann group on Monday, August 5th at 5 pm
• Juffmann lab tour for Ries group on Tuesday, August 6th at 12 pm

July 29

• lab tasks

July 22

• Jonas reports from the GRC
• investments and new PCR wish

July 11

• transfer wiki from HD
• lab tasks: create, assign, and rotate
• dark room with red lights for PaX dye sample prep
• retreat picture folder → who set it up? where is it?
• Postdoc candidates Pallavi, Ioannis
• Investment wishes
• summer holidays in calendar and in SAP

July 1

• informal visit Milad tomorrow 11
• visit (with talks) Ioannis Pitsios on Thursday morning and Pallavi Della on Friday afternoon

June 24

• ELN: have we set up any standardization as far as entries etc. go?
• SMLMS in Lisboa
• Visit Pallavi 5.7.
• The -70 °C freezers in VBC5 level 0, room 0.412, will be serviced on Thursday, the 27.6., starting 11:30.sday, the 27.6., starting 11:30. Are we affected?
• Lab Retreat receipts
• Abberior user meeting July 15-17
• tutor mol biophysics

June 17

• Retreat follow up
  • The Good; don't change
    • balance between talks and activities, as well as timing; no too much science per day
    • not too many food leftovers
  • The Bad, or change-worthy
    • activities could be more affordable, unless people agree to pay out of pocket again
    • meal plan and thus shopping list could have been planned better
      • trash bags, paper towels, soap, etc.
  • The Unclear; change or not?
    • duration of retreat (one day shorter?)
    • restaurant outing instead of another activity?
  • pictures upload → someone will set up a share solution for full quality sharing
  • expenses → Francesco taking care of it
• Pallavi postdoc candidate: 5.7. 
• Application Dalila (summer student)

June 3

• Bookings for Group Retreat
• Presentations
• "Common" things to bring for the group at the Retreat: who brings what
• What to bring
• Rendez-vous to leave for Zell am See
• Food requests/cooking volunteers
• (Vienna) Fill in business trip request
• Delivery of MINFLUX microscope: calibration samples, trainings...
• Postdoc candidate Pallavi
• Melodic Monday (Free entry today)
• Pride parade (Saturday 8 June)

May 21

• alumni management for Slack, Benchling, etc. 
• retreat fun activity needs to be booked asap 

May 6

• retreat
• visit Michaela Master
• seminar Köhler
• small stuff for Nick to bring?

April 29

• Server acces Vienna-Heidelberg: where is/will experimental data be saved in Vienna, and how can Heidelberg people access it (and viceversa)
• Master candidate: Michaela Janka
• EMBL desk space cleaning

April 22

• Affiliations on papers
• Visit Bachelor candidate Utku, Th 12:00.

April 15

• Group retreat
  • working groups: Science, Schedule, Logistics, Food, Fun
  • Prepare a presentation
  • Science/schedule: Nestor, Takahiro
  • Logistics: Francesco, Amr, Takahiro
  • Food: Maxime, Alejandro, Gabin, Soheil, Zach
  • Fun: Phylicia, Zach, Maxime, Nick
    • Hiking, rafting, swimming, canyoning 
• Vienna MINFLUX 
• Course teaching

March 11

• Bachelor student application Max Immler
• Group retreat: the poll (https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/dLAkGLje) indicates the week of the 17th of June as the best match. Francesco will check possible locations and availabilities.
• Recruitment HFSP postdoc
• FOM talks and posters

March 04

• ELN: stick with labforward, or "do it right"? (; 
  • Uni Vie offers the possibility of having an organization website, different from the wiki (https://zid.univie.ac.at/en/cms-typo3/) if it can help (FR)
• Email to Abberior with the MINFLUX questions
• Lab retreat: please sign up in the doodle poll (https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/dLAkGLje), volunteers welcome for organization (Francesco)
• Candidate Sha Hao
• Safety training in Vienna (Moodle elearning)

February 26

• Happy hour Vienna 7.3.
• Ries group retreat
• Additional investments for renovation in Vienna
• Microsoft Teams and group calendars
• Application Hao Sha

February 19

• Benchling access for former members → remove or keep?
• Slack
  • INBOX → thread OK, or better channel?
    • already gone unnoticed → Soheil's dark red beads have been shipped to Vienna → someone please ship/bring them back to Heidelberg
  • other requests/points?
• Bring Soheil's Computer back!!
  • next time someone travels from Vienna by car, or is feeling brave to do it by train → bring just the tower

February 06

• Visit Hadis Sajedi today
• FOM organization and registration
• New resources / tools in Vienna
  • Wiki
  • Fileshare
  • ELN
  • Data bases
  • Calendar
• MINFLUX review

January 29 

• Slack
  • INBOX → thread OK, or better channel?
  • other requests/points?
• Organisational:
  • new mailing list in Vienna
  • Where to move the Wiki to
  • Group calendar
• HFSP candidates
• 1:1 and nano-meetings